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Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
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Publisher Price: $13.95
Publisher: Warbler Classics
Published: Apr 28 2026
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In this vivid, unconventional memoir, Ford Madox Ford offers an intimate portrait of Joseph Conrad-friend, collaborator, and one of the defining literary figures of the early twentieth century. Drawing on decades of shared experience, Ford reconstructs the personal and artistic bond that shaped both men's work, illuminating the creative tensions and mutual influences that underpinned their relationship.
More than a recollection, Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance serves as a subtle manifesto of Ford's own literary philosophy. Through a fluid and impressionistic narrative, Ford explores the nature of artistic vision, memory, and narrative form, revealing points of harmony and divergence between his ideas and Conrad's. The result is a work that is as much about the craft of writing as it is about the life of a writer.
Rejecting linear chronology, Ford arranges his material in a series of shifting temporal perspectives, blending immediate impressions with reflective hindsight. This innovative structure enacts the very aesthetic principles Ford champions, offering readers not a fixed portrait but a living, evolving presence. Includes a chronology of the life and work of Joseph Conrad.
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